White-tailed deer are carrying COVID-19. They may have gotten it from human contact during food sharing or from eating trash infected with coronavirus:
“Humans have infected wild deer with Covid-19 in a handful of states, and there’s evidence that the coronavirus has been spreading among deer, according to recent studies that outline findings that could complicate the path out of the pandemic.”
“About one-third of the deer sampled had active or recent infections, the study says. Similar research in Iowa of tissue from roadkill and hunted deer found widespread evidence of the virus.”
— “Covid is rampant among deer, research shows,” Evan Bush, NBC News
More:
“There’s a Covid-19 epidemic in deer. It could come back to haunt us.” Brian Resnick, Vox
“Is the Coronavirus in Your Backyard?”, Emily Anthes and Sabrina Imbler, New York Times
“Are Deer In COVID’s Crosshairs?” Paul Schattenberg, Texas A&M Today
“SARS-CoV-2 infection in free-ranging white-tailed deer,” Vanessa L. Hale, Patricia M. Dennis, Dillon S. McBride, et al., Nature [pdf]
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